BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Cuban and CARICOM leaders have ended their one-day summit here on Tuesday with Havana saying that the deliberations had “exceeded our expectations”.

DJERBA, Tunisia – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is returning to Canada on Monday after attending the summit of French-speaking countries where he announced that Ottawa is providing CAD $16.5 million (One CAD$=US$0.74 cents) to help stabilize Haiti.

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt – Britain’s Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly is calling for tangible action to deliver on the commitments made at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) held in Glasgow last year as well as support developing economies to tackle the impacts of climate change.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The eighth CARICOM–Cuba summit got underway here on Tuesday questioning the continued trade and economic embargo against Havana as well as a promise to maintain and strengthen of the ongoing relationship that has guided the parties for the last 50 years.

SANTIAGO, Chile – A new report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says the region is most affected demographically by the COVID-19 pandemic.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – A United Nations agency is using St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ response to multiple hazards, some of them simultaneously, over the last two years as a case study for disaster risk reduction around the world.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian gangsters have seized at least three police vehicles, including 2 armoured ones, amid a wave of gang violence that does not even spare the Caribbean country’s police officers, counting dozens of victims in their ranks.

BALI, Indonesia – CARICOM has called on the world’s most developed economies to help establish an action plan on food and energy security, agricultural innovation and climate action.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Amid continuing gang warfare and a vacuum of law and order, Haiti is “on the verge of an abyss” said the United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday, warning that any hope of a sustainable recovery requires “urgent and sustained action” to tackle the root causes of the overlapping crises afflicting the island nation.

SANTIAGO, Chile – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says, in 2021, at least 4,473 women were victims of femicide, also known as feminicide, in 29 countries and territories of the region.

Geneva - The UN’s main human rights agency is calling on the Dominican Republic to halt the deportations of Haitian migrants at a time of unrest in their country.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Immediate action is needed to save young lives in Haiti amid the “triple threat” of cholera, malnutrition and violence, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said on Tuesday.